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Vic Drought Hub - Farmland 3
stormy wheat image credit SFS 2000px

Drought resilience in an uncertain Victorian harvest

Building drought resilience - aligning with emergency-management principles

Drought model: a deeper explanation of alignment (part 2)

Climate Change Earth - Australasia

Drought model: a deeper explanation (part 1)

Feb17
  • Ag Industry Event

evokeAg 2026

  AgriFutures evokeAG. is Asia Pacific’s annual showcase of bold ideas, groundbreaking innovations and disruptive science driving agriculture towards a better future. Entering its sixth year,...
Feb19

Research to Resilience – Building a Drought-Ready Future at Unimelb

  Set across a working farm enterprise, the tour will showcase how integrated research, emerging technologies and long-term trials are driving more resilient, productive and...
Mar17
  • Ag Industry Event

MLA Carbon EDGE – Euroa

MLA Carbon EDGE is a series of national events, with the next Victorian workshop to be held in Euroa.   The program is for red...
Media Releases
  • Soil
  • 3 minute read

Media Release: Students explore soil careers with GV schools

    Dr Anna Kosovac Over 500 years ago Leonardo da Vinci observed: “We know more about the movement of celestial bodies than about the soil underfoot.” This reflection, shared by Dr Peter Fisher –...
  • Drought resilienceResearch trials
  • 3 minute read

Media Release: Vic Hub horticulture project 1 of 5 awarded in national Long-term Trials program

Caption: Through extensive research, the Vic Hub project will develop guidelines and tools to help Australia’s $16.3b horticulture industry better manage drought conditions. Image credit: AgVic       A project to establish tree-survival signatures...
  • Drought resilience
  • 2 minute read

Media Release: MP Michaela Settle talks resilience at Drought Resilience 2025

L-R: Prof Rebecca Lester, Vic Hub Knowledge-Broker Lead; Deb Turner, Assistant Director, Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF); Katrina Baxendell, Director, Research and Adoption Strategy and Hub Management, Future Drought Fund, DAFF; Nick Frederick,...
News Articles
Short-wave infrared satellite view Longwood Vic bushfire-9 Jan 2026_image credit Copernicus- Sentinel_2000px

Caring for livestock after bushfire and in drought

Figure 1 Metacoder figure updated 2000px

Honeybee health research published in ‘Environmental DNA’ journal

firefighters helping Victorian communities

Victorian bushfire support update

NORTH-EAST UPDATE – Nov 2025

DROUGHT SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR VICTORIA (statewide) – LATE OCT 2025

DROUGHT SUPPORT PACKAGE FOR SOUTH-WEST VICTORIA – LATE OCT 2025

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